[APP]Chrome APK Packager-Generates Chrome Packages from Apps installed on your phone

[bpear96]

Download from the Play Store
or direct APK link

Chrome APK Packager is a convenient way to produce Chrome ARChon Custom Runtime packages directly from your phone.

You can generate chrome packages from either APKs on your phones storage, or from apps installed on your phone (It will pull APK)

Open the App, select an APK or App from list. App Name and package name are both pulled from the APK and put into the manifest.json file. Everything is then zipped together in a ChromeAPK folder on your phones storage.

Requires https://github.com/vladikoff/chromeos-apk/blob/master/archon.md ARChon Custom Runtime which allows for "unlimited" number of android apps to be installed. (Google Runtime is limited to 4 apps.)

App is now open source! https://github.com/bpear96/Chrome-APK-Packager
TODO:

• Allow orientation/mode to be changed (landscape/tablet)
• Sort installed app selection alphabetically
• Better UI
• Local web server to be able to push files to chromebook (maybe)
• Easily share generated zip (To Google drive, email etc)

Credits:
Tydi for the awesome icon!
https://github.com/Nimrodda/WizarDroid Library
http://www.lingala.net/zip4j/ Library

Changelog:
Beta 8 (v0.9.5)

• Option to enable External Directory (Can select where you want app to read/write )
• Option to enable ADB.

Beta 7 (v0.9.4)

• App is now named "ARChon Packager" (App was removed from play store)
• New icon that resembles the chrome logo less. Thanks to https://plus.google.com/u/0/101124546893782960463
• UI Improvements. Permission to use assets from this theme http://forum.xda-developers.com/showthread.php?t=2467075

Beta 6 (v0.9.3)

• Run media scanner. Makes sure new files appear when connected to PC.
• UI Improvements. Tinted status bar and MaterialDialog popups. http://i.imgur.com/7txpzkV.png

Beta 5 (v0.9.2)

• Removed unnecessary dependency (50% decrease in app size)
• Properly handle back button press.

Beta 4 (V0.9.1)

• Clean up unnecessary folders after app runs. (unzipped chrome app, pulled apk folder)
• Progress Dialog appears when generating Chrome package/zipping
• Entire process should be smoother now.

Beta 3 (V0.9)

• Pressing phone/tablets back button now prompts user to restart wizard.

Beta 2 (V0.8)

• Add "Share Chrome app" button. Allows user to easily share generated app to Google Drive, email, etc.
• Add Progress dialogs when generating APK list, and pulling APK.

Beta 1.1 (v0.7)

• Small UI changes
• Play Store release.

Beta 1 (V0.6):

• Completely redesigned app. Should be simpler to use and understand. Thanks to this awesome library https://github.com/Nimrodda/WizarDroid
• Play Store and Github source release soon.

Alpha 5:

• App can now be generated with different settings correctly (Mode/Orientation). Settings were not cleaning correctly before so if user generated app again with different settings it would not work.

Alpha 4:

• Added options (Choose between phone/tablet and portrait/landscape layou)

Alpha 3:

• APK Icon is now extracted and packaged for chrome.
• Using Tydi Icon Thanks! Really appreciate it.

Alpha 2:

• Alphabetically sort installed apps.
• Alert user to wait for popup telling them there Chrome App is ready. (A bit buggy)

 

[xdagee]

Great;

 

[armando_rod]

Can you put an option to add tweaks to the manifest?

 

[bpear96]

Can you put an option to add tweaks to the manifest?

Yup that is my next step . Just got apps sorted alphabetically. So will begin working on that now. Shouldn't be too complicated.

 

[polosan]

with this,we can collect app and open together ??

 

[gnomenreigen]

Awesome!

 

[dabotsonline]

Could a new feature be implemented where every time the APK is updated from the Play Store, a new Chrome Package is automatically generated?

 

[Stormwing]

Sweet! Could I request a couple things though?

1. Allow for custom icons and/or extract the one within the apk
2. In addition to formfactor and orientation, add "resize":"scale" to the manifest.jeon
3. This might be difficult, but root access, and copy necessary data and obb files from /system

Great work man!

 

[scottharris4]

anyone know of a fully working twitter app? The Twitter app works fine for everything but writing tweets as far as I can tell, the third party twitter app I use can't login.

 

[Tydi]

Nice app, but stock icon, made that for you :angel:

 

[scottharris4]

anyone know of a fully working twitter app? The Twitter app works fine for everything but writing tweets as far as I can tell, the third party twitter app I use can't login.

I found one, Tweetings.

 

[bpear96]

Nice app, but stock icon, made that for you :angel:
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Thanks ! Really like this icon will be using it for sure

 

[zeldor]

fabulous but need tablet mode

so it works great to convert K9 email to my chromebook but its the narrow phone format not the nice wide
tablet format.
so getting an option to use the -tablet switch that the underlying process supports would be real handy.

thanks

 

[christbeliever17]

Trying to get the Plume App to work.

I've come so close to getting Plume (3rd party Twitter app) to work. Chrome will open the app and the Android Logo will appear, and it won't do anything beyond that. I'm running Chrome Beta, whether that makes any difference or not.

 

[AndroidDeveloperLB]

Why not publishing it on the Play Store?

 

[filippogasbarro]

settings bug

Very beautiful and useful app !!! But in the version 2 doesn't function the settings button. I Will wait for the support of apk with obb for google chrome

 

[christbeliever17]

Am I doing something wrong?

I've loaded many apps on my Chromebox. Unzip'ed all the apk's and loaded them as extensions. All of the apps just sit at the Android Logo screen, and don't do anything. Do I need to do something else to get them going? I've tried these apps: Snapseed, Plume & Photo Mate R2.

 

[bpear96]

so it works great to convert K9 email to my chromebook but its the narrow phone format not the nice wide
tablet format.
so getting an option to use the -tablet switch that the underlying process supports would be real handy.

thanks

Going to be adding that soon. Just got icon extraction working

 

[bpear96]

Why not publishing it on the Play Store?

I will be once the app is cleaned up and complete with the features I want.

 

[bpear96]

Very beautiful and useful app !!! But in the version 2 doesn't function the settings button. I Will wait for the support of apk with obb for google chrome

Yeah settings doesn't exist at the moment. Very early build. obb support might be possible.